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Gladney HR off Burns was the difference. Barons win 1-0. Overall offensive numbers for the Barons are ROUGH.

That's right - think they swept the Rays during that.

This team being .500 over their last 12 games or whatever feels like they're at the top of the division compared to what we've seen for the last year.

Throw strikes please Booser

I disagree

Boy, that turned around FAST

Awful big swing by Rojas with two strikes there

I would assume he was there just to work on some swing/approach changes, and the results didn't matter. He did what they wanted him to do so he went back to Charlotte. We'll see if it makes a difference.

Checking game day and there’s a pitch right down the middle called a ball. Has the strike zone really been that bad today?

I love Elko

Good bounce back after the sweep

So the contact play WASN’T on. “Wheels” Vaughn just thought he could beat that out.

I don’t even think they could get the equivalent of Kimbrel for Vaughn.

Bummer had a 6.79 ERA the year before he was traded. They were never getting anything good for him. A potentially smarter move would've been to hang onto him for another year and see if he'd return to form and match his FIP, but that's not the argument I see being made. It's just bitching about getting relatively fair value for a guy who put a ton of people on base and had only one real standout year as a reliever. He's been good since leaving the Sox, but still has the same issues we saw here. a 3.5-3.6 ERA reliever is a decent piece but not someone you expect much in return for in a trade.

Glad to see they showed up ready to play and avoid the 4 game sweep

We need hitters who aren't dumb enough to swing at change-ups below the strike zone when they've seen this guy's stuff pregame using the fancy new pitching machines teams have, and when they've already faced him a couple times today.

They've even got Schriffen sounding defeated.

Probably, but that's too long for a guy who's never really shown more than ~.750 OPS upside. He's a sunk cost at this point. I'd like to see more accountability.

They should send Vaughn down. He's been struggling for over a month. He can figure his s%*# out in AAA.

Welp, wasted my time tuning in when I saw things happening at the end.

Witt basically winning this one single handedly

Vaughn ruins everything

Pathetic man

What did Meidroth do?

He hits the ball hard when he swings at pitches he can do damage on. Some of them are outside of the strike zone (like the rocket RBI single up the middle yesterday). I'm totally fine with him being a free swinger, but only on pitches he can hit hard. The problem with being the worst in the league at swinging at pitches out of the zone is the vast majority of those it's not possible to hit hard unless your Vlad Guerrero Sr. Sosa's ceiling will probably be the mid .600s OPS guy he is now unless he makes this change, and I very much doubt he can. I hope he makes me look like a big fat idiot by the end of the year, though.